Roger Gaskell, CTO of Kognitio, has overall responsibility for all product development. He has been instrumental in all generations of the WX and WX2 database products to date, including evolving it from a database application running on proprietary hardware, to a software-only analytical database built on industry-standard blade servers.
Prior to Kognitio, Roger was test and development manager at AB Electronics for five years. During this time his primary responsibility was for the famous BBC Micro Computer and the development and testing of the first mass production of personal computers for IBM.
Is MapReduce the Holy Grail answer to the pressing problem of processing,
analyzing and making sense of large and growing data volumes? Certainly it
has potential in this arena, but there is a distressing gap between the
amount of hype this technology - and its spinoffs - has received and the
number of professionals who actually know how to integrate and make best use
of it.
Industry watchers say it's just a matter of time before MapReduce sweeps
through the enterprise data warehouse (EDW) market the same way open source
technologies like Linux have done. In fact, in a recent blog post,
Forrester's James Kobielus proclaimed that most EDW vendors will incorporate
support for MapReduce's open source cousin Hadoop into the heart of their
architectures to enable open, standards-based data analytics on massive
amounts of data.
So, no more databases, just MapReduce? I'm... (more)
Roger Gaskell, CTO of Kognitio, has overall responsibility for all product development. He has been instrumental in all generations of the WX and WX2 database products to date, including evolving it from a database application running on proprietary hardware, to a software-only analytical database built on industry-standard blade servers.
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